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Encyclopedia of the solar system

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  • ISBN: 0120885891
  • ISBN: 9780120885893
  • Physical Description: print
    xx, 966 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
  • Edition: 2nd ed.
  • Publisher: San Diego : Academic Press, 2007.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Chapter 1 Solar System and its Place in the Galaxy / Paul R. Weissman 1 -- Chapter 2 Origin of the Solar System / Alex N. Halliday, John E. Chambers 29 -- Chapter 3 A History of Solar System Studies / David Leverington 53 -- Chapter 4 Sun / Markus J. Aschwanden 71 -- Chapter 5 Solar Wind / John T. Gosling 99 -- Chapter 6 Mercury / Robert G. Strom 117 -- Chapter 7 Venus: Atmosphere / Donald M. Hunten 139 -- Chapter 8 Venus: Surface and Interior / Suzanne E. Smrekar, Ellen R. Stofan 149 -- Chapter 9 Earth as a Planet: Atmosphere and Oceans / Timothy E. Dowling, Adam P. Showman 169 -- Chapter 10 Earth as a Planet: Surface and Interior / David C. Pieri, Adam M. Dziewonski 189 -- Chapter 11 Sun-Earth Connection / Janet G. Luhmann, Stanley C. Solomon 213 -- Chapter 12 Moon / Stuart Ross Taylor 227 -- Chapter 13 Meteorites / Michael E. Lipschutz, Ludolf Schultz 251 -- Chapter 14 Near-Earth Objects / Lucy A. McFadden, Richard P. Binzel 283 -- Chapter 15 Mars Atmosphere: History and Surface Interactions / David C. Catling, Conway Leovy 301 -- Chapter 16 Mars: Surface and Interior / Michael H. Carr 315 -- Chapter 17 Mars: Landing Site Geology, Mineralogy, and Geochemistry / Matthew P. Golombek, Harry Y. McSween, Jr. 331 -- Chapter 18 Main-Belt Asteroids / Daniel T. Britt, Guy Colsolmagno, Larry Lebofsky 349 -- Chapter 19 Planetary Satellites / Bonnie J. Buratti, Peter C. Thomas 365 -- Chapter 20 Atmospheres of the Giant Planets / Robert A. West 383 -- Chapter 21 Interiors of the Giant Planets / Mark S. Marley, Jonathan J. Fortney 403 -- Chapter 22 Io: The Volcanic Moon / Rosaly M. C. Lopes 419 -- Chapter 23 Europa / Louise M. Prockter, Robert T. Pappalardo 431 -- Chapter 24 Ganymede and Callisto / Geoffrey Collins, Torrence V. Johnson 449 -- Chapter 25 Titan / Athena Coustenis 467 -- Chapter 26 Triton / William B. McKinnon, Randolph L. Kirk 483 -- Chapter 27 Planetary Rings / Carolyn C. Porco, Douglas P. Hamilton 503 -- Chapter 28 Planetary Magnetospheres / Margaret Galland Kivelson, Fran Bagenal 519 -- Chapter 29 Pluto / S. Alan Stern 541 -- Chapter 30 Physics and Chemistry of Comets / John C. Brandt 557 -- Chapter 31 Comet Populations and Cometary Dynamics / Harold F. Levison, Luke Dones 575 -- Chapter 32 Kuiper Belt: Dynamics / Alessandro Morbidelli, Harold F. Levison 589 -- Chapter 33 Kuiper Belt Objects: Physical Studies / Stephen C. Tegler 605 -- Chapter 34 Solar System Dust / Eberhard Grun 621 -- Chapter 35 X-Rays in the Solar System / Anil Bhardwaj, Carey M. Lisse 637 -- Chapter 36 Solar System at Ultraviolet Wavelengths / Amanda R. Hendrix, Robert M. Nelson, Deborah L. Domingue 659 -- Chapter 37 Infrared Views of the Solar System from Space / Mark V. Sykes 681 -- Chapter 38 Solar System at Radio Wavelengths / Imke de Pater, William S. Kurth 695 -- Chapter 39 New Generation Ground-Based Optical/Infrared Telescopes / Alan T. Tokunaga, Robert Jedicke 719 -- Chapter 40 Planetary Radar / Steven J. Ostro 735 -- Chapter 41 Remote Chemical Sensing Using Nuclear Spectroscopy / Thomas H. Prettyman 765 -- Chapter 42 Solar System Dynamics: Regular and Chaotic Motion / Jack J. Lissauer, Carl D. Murray 787 -- Chapter 43 Planetary Impacts / Richard A. F. Grieve, Mark J. Cintala, Roald Tagle 813 -- Chapter 44 Planetary Volcanism / Lionel Wilson 829 -- Chapter 45 Astrobiology / Christopher P. McKay, Wanda L. Davis 849 -- Chapter 46 Planetary Exploration Missions / James D. Burke 869 -- Chapter 47 Extrasolar Planets / Michael Endl, William D. Cochran 887.
Subject: Solar system Encyclopedias
Genre: Encyclopedias.

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